The captain of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington praised his crew's performance after the crash-landing of a training jet that killed five people and sent flames rolling across the flight deck. The crash killed the pilot, three sailors and a civilian technician and injured 19 aboard the Lexington, a training ship fondly called ``Lady Lex'' because it is the Navy's only carrier that allows ...
One extreme example of this happened on October 29, 1989 as a student pilot made his very first approach to the U.S.S. Lexington (CVT 16). The dramatic footage below — shot from cameras at various places around the flight deck — shows the T-2 Buckeye, which was attached to VT-19, a training squadron based in Meridian, Miss., rolling out of ...
Credit: Discovery Channel Pensacola, Florida, October 29, 1989The pilot of a training jet that crashed into the USS Lexington, killing him and four others, w...
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The Navy identified the other dead as Airman Lisa L. Mayo, 25, of Oklahoma City; Petty Officer 3rd Class Burnett Kilgore Jr., 19, of Holly Springs, Miss.; and Petty Officer 3rd Class Timmy L. Garroutte, 30, of Memphis, Tenn., all Lexington crew members; and Byron Gervis Courvelle, 32, of Meridian, Miss., a civilian employee of DynCorp which has ...
Oct. 31, 1989 Probe underway in Lexington crash. By DAVID TORTORANO. ... including the April 19 gun turret explosion aboard the USS Iowa that killed 47 crew members, the May 9 fire aboard the Navy ...
Evening news coverage of the flight deck crash aboard USS Lexington (AVT-16) that killed five and injured several others off the coast of Pensacola, Florida....
A jet trainer crashed Sunday on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Gulf of Mexico, killing five people, injuring at least two and damaging several aircraft, the Navy said.
Fires started by the crash were under control by 7 P.M., ending any threat to the carrier's safety, Major Smith said. The Lexington is heading back to Pensacola and is expected to arrive today.
The flight deck of the USS Lexington smelled of jet fuel Monday. Touch the wall, and soot rubbed off on your fingers. Overhead, the tip of a red wing dangled from a fuel tank. Naval investigators d…
A Navy pilot attempting his first landing at sea was flying too low before his training jet crashed on the aircraft carrier Lexington, killing him and four others, the ship's captain said today.
USS LEXINGTON suffers a class alpha fire and is dead in the water for over an hour when all boilers are shut down as a result. October 29, 1989: Gulf of Mexico: A pilot making his first touch-and-go attempt aboard the LEXINGTON crashes onto the flight deck, killing five and injuring 19 crewmembers.
Mark Anthony Lopez, 21, a flight deck worker on the USS Lexington, was critically burned when a jet pilot crashed into the ship's tower while attempting his first-ever carrier landing. Five sailors were killed and Lopez and another were injured. Lopez has been a sailor for three years, and his enlistment is up Aug. 8, 1990.
-On Oct. 29, a training pilot attempting his first landing aboard an aircraft carrier crashed his T-2 Buckeye jet on the USS Lexington, killing four men and one woman, including the pilot, and ...
The aircraft carrier USS Lexington arrived at its home port Monday for an assessment of damage caused by the crash of a training jet that killed five people and critically injured a West Valley City, Utah, sailor. Petty Officer Tom Hushion said the carrier arrived at the Pensacola Naval Air Station shortly after 8:30 a.m. MST.
